Raid on the Sublime Porte

The Raid on the Sublime Porte occurred on 23 January 1913 when Enver Pasha and Talaat Pasha and a number of Committee of Union and Progress members launched a surprise raid against several Ottoman government buildings, known collectively as the "Sublime Porte". The Freedom and Accord Party, which had lost the Second Balkan War, was easily targeted by the CUP, who feared that the Ottomans would abide by Bulgaria's request for the Ottomans to cede the former capital of Adrianople (Edirne). The CUP murdered government ministers like Nazim Pasha and took control of the government, and the "Three Pashas" Enver, Talaat, and Djemal Pasha took control of the government and aligned it with the German Empire.